Dear readers of the SIMODEC Newsletter, for this first edition of 2026, the entire Rochexpo team joins me in wishing you, your colleagues and your families all the best for the new year. We wish you the best of health and optimal conditions for the fulfilment of your projects, whether family or professional.

For our country, we hope that our national and international leaders will work together to find the best path to stability and peace. We hope that this year will finally bring greater serenity to our world, which has been so disrupted by the many upheavals currently underway.

We hope that manufacturers will find the courage and foresight to act in the best interests of their companies, their employees and their work tools. May they be able to adapt to the current changes in the most favourable environment possible.µ

Finally, we hope to see many of you at the SIMODEC 2026 trade fair, which we are preparing with our partners, for you and with you, so that together we can take action to ensure that 2026 gets off to the best possible start. Thanks to constructive exchanges between professionals, the entire sector is growing stronger, as is our industrial fabric. So that we can continue to improve.

Philippe Vachoux, Président de Rochexpo